Blog Updates and inspiration

Days of the week are no longer a thing for me, instead I categorize days by the name of cities Warped Tour hits. Today, we’re in Indianapolis and soon we’re off to Toronto followed by Buffalo, NY. On our days off, I sometimes question why no one’s out about town, then I’m reminded it’s a Monday […]

Five cities, eleven days, thousands of miles. It’s safe to say being on Warped Tour has cured any signs of the travel bug. To put it simply, it’s hard to imagine what my life will be like after this seven-week tour. One thing is certain – I may be addicted to life on the road. For the […]

Invisible Children doesn’t stop at documenting atrocities or activating youth or protecting civilians or rehabilitating post-conflict communities. We do it all. And we do it through a four-part model that focuses exclusively on the LRA conflict, addressing it in its entirety: immediate needs and long-term effects. One of the four parts of the comprehensive model is Mobilization. For the past […]

Warped Tour officially starts this Saturday, June 15. Tomorrow, Invisible Children Music is hitting the road to our first stop in Seattle, Washington. The beginning of the two-month tour, we’ll be traveling to 6 cities on the west coast before the festival takes on the rest of the country. Working alongside fellow roadie Stesha Durante, […]

It feels like it’s been months, but just three weeks ago I was working as an intern in IC’s Comm Dept, throwing out ideas and strategizing for whatever grand idea they had up their sleeve. For the past 10 months or so, I worked as the social media intern and immersed myself in communication strategy and […]

Concerts are usually experienced in the masses but even in the largest of crowds, every audience member has a unique experience– the true beauty behind live music. In their second project together, musician Edisonnoside and visual artist Daniel Schwartz have clashed music and light projection together to recreate the concert experience in Imposition. What began as […]

You probably wouldn’t know it by looking at them, but Pierce Freelon and his colleague Stephen Levitin are both professors at the University of North Carolina. Together they teach Beat Making Lab at the university, where students learn the basic skills needed to create and distribute beats for various genres including hip-hop. In addition to teaching, both men are […]

In the daily interactions we have with people, a nod hello to a passing stranger could seem like nothing more than a nice gesture. But without even knowing it, that gesture may be the human connection someone really needed. Naturally, human interaction is something we strive to obtain. For musician Amanda Palmer, human connections inspired […]

Meet Juan. He loves music. In fact, he estimates that since high school he’s been to at least 600 live shows. He also spent four life-changing months in Spain. When he’s not standing in the middle of a crowd or dancing to the beat of the music, he’s using his innate understanding of social media strategy and […]

Early on in college, becoming a music journalist was my ultimate goal. So, finding new music wasn’t just a hobby, it was a way of deconstructing and analyzing the music industry. This may or may not have led me on a journey of attending 100 concerts in various countries in 2010. Fast forward to present […]